Medieval DramaMedieval Drama is a textbook, designed to be used by A level and undergraduate students of theatre and drama. It is divided into two major areas, mystery cycles and morality plays, and it examines the plays from a performance perspective. The book makes special reference to those texts contained within selections of plays which can be readily obtained by students, including A.C.Cawley's Everyman and Medieval Miracle Plays (Dent). The staging conventions of pageant waggon performance, place and scaffold playing and the drama of the Hall are explored in relation to the cultural context of the medieval period. |
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Page 18
... wagon bearers . The playing area consisted of the floor of the wagon , the ground in front of it and often an upper storey constructed on the wagon itself which was used to represent Heaven and to provide a playing space for God and ...
... wagon bearers . The playing area consisted of the floor of the wagon , the ground in front of it and often an upper storey constructed on the wagon itself which was used to represent Heaven and to provide a playing space for God and ...
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... wagon and in front of it , especially if the plays required a journey to take place . Characters could thus ' enter ' through the audience who were standing around the wagon or sitting on the ground . The more prosperous may have paid ...
... wagon and in front of it , especially if the plays required a journey to take place . Characters could thus ' enter ' through the audience who were standing around the wagon or sitting on the ground . The more prosperous may have paid ...
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... wagons required . Many guilds shared a wagon with other guilds who performed a play on the other two days . Shortly after the first reference to the Whitsun Play , the Vintners , Goldsmith and Dyers made an agreement to share the wagon ...
... wagons required . Many guilds shared a wagon with other guilds who performed a play on the other two days . Shortly after the first reference to the Whitsun Play , the Vintners , Goldsmith and Dyers made an agreement to share the wagon ...
Contents
PARTI MYSTERY PLAYS | 3 |
Everyman and other Morality Plays | 97 |
The Place | 108 |
Copyright | |
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Medieval Drama Christine Richardson,Colette Rausch,Jackie Johnston,Leigh A. Payne No preview available - 1991 |
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A. C. Cawley Abel Play Abel's actors allegory Angel appear audience audience's biblical Cain and Abel Cain's Castle of Perseverance characters Chester play Christ Christian contrast Corpus Christi plays costumes Coventry Cross Crucifixion Crucifixion Play cycle plays demonstrate Devils didactic ditch EETS effect Elizabethan entertainment episode Everyman fifteenth century God's guilds Hell Interludes Last Judgement Last Judgement Play liturgical liturgical drama London Mankind Medieval Drama Medieval English Drama medieval period Medieval Theatre Mercers Mercy Mischief Morality plays Mummers Mystery Cycles Mystery plays N-Town Cycle N-Town play Noah offer pageant wagon Passion sequence performance physical play world playing area popular possible recognise records reference religious represent response role salvation scaffolds Secunda Pastorum Shepherds Play shows social soldiers souls space spectators speech spiritual stage directions survived theatre tithe Titivillus Towneley Towneley-Wakefield Cycle Towneley-Wakefield play tradition Tudor vices Wakefield Wakefield Master York Cycle